Now, let's say I want to display the string value of enum in some control. For that, I will have to convert Enum value to string. For example, I want to add all enum string values to a DropDownList. The following code loops through the enumeration and adds string values to it. Here SortByList is DropDownList.
// Conversion from Enum to String
foreach (string item in Enum.GetNames(typeof(ArrayListBinding.SortFilter)))
Now let's say, you have an enum string value say, "FirstName" and now you want to convert it to Enum value. The following code converts from a string to enum value, where Developer.SortingBy is of type SortFilter enumeration:
// Conversion from String to Enum
Developer.SortingBy = (SortFilter)Enum.Parse(typeof(SortFilter), "FirstName");
Note: The below note is added by Quach. See below article comments for more details.
You can also access enum using GetValues and GetName: